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August 4, 2016August 4, 2016

More Progress on the Front Deck!

As I mentioned in my post two weeks ago, we’ve been working on the front entry. That post tells about what has held us up this last year. Now we are finally getting back on track and it feels so good to post progress photos for you guys again!

To recap, here’s what we’ve come home to for a few years. A super dilapidated, temporary, construction staircase, a lot of Typar paper, and a temporary front door that I slapped some red paint on.

Before front entryBefore front entry

We ordered huge truckloads of dirt and rock, that Declan really loved to watch dump. Then Bryce started plugging away at filling gabions and moving dirt.

Before last week, it looked like this. This is where we had to stop last summer. You can read all about gabions and the front entry work.

Where we left off on the front entry work August 2015

This next picture really shows just how far off the ground the front door is. This is what all of our work was about last week – filling in the dirt. The goal is to get an entry way that has dramatic steps up to a beautiful door, but that also has an easy, low-slope ramp for wheeling in furniture and for handicap access.